Icinix: The discussion of what constitues DRM. Your discussion is the first time I've ever heard of Spyware being a criteria for DRM. Online requirement has to me and others always been a shifty way to have DRM without it being technically DRM.
Online only / F2P only. Does it have a place on GOG if it goes against the very things GOG was founded on.
Finally - if you like it - good for you. Again, you don't have a dog in this fight. You're happy, you're set. For those of us against the idea, even if GOG comes out now and says 'Galaxy optional, SP offline, one off purchase ofr SP' and we go YAY - it won't affect you at all. You'll still have the online , F2P portion, and GOG has held true to it's values.
So why would you enter debates with others to fight against that, when you're already happy, and this would make them happy.
CRO_Revan: DRM is everything, every single criteria that cannot be found on GOG. Origin ifself was known to be spyware, prying around other people programs outside of gaming range. Windows 10 reports outdated DRMs as spyware, etc... All singleplayer games trying to/must be online is DRM also. CD-Keys and random authentications with server also, etc... all fall into online criteria as you wrote yourself.
But you actually didn't pay for the game in order to complain about the system, did you? GOG isn't forcing the game or forcing you to pay real money in order to actually play the game, nor is forcing you, as GOG user/customer, to be online while playing other games in your collection? So, why attacking DRM-free policy based on one game many of you don't even like?... But I will stop. True enough. Everything you said stand. My bad. I like card games and Gwent is far better then any other card game out there. That is my subjective opinion. But, since I'm happy with the game, I don't have a dog in this fight, your words. I will take my leave now, starting to wonder why I even bothered in the first place... :)
But it got the better of me... sorry...
Maybe you don't have a dog in this fight because you cannot accept the future. This is gaming industry, either you adapt of go down in flames. You think big players like Valve, owner of Steam, of EA, cares about this little DRM-free revolution? What is GOG to them? A fly on a windshield. You thing that, what +40 000 Witcher 3 games sold on GOG.com paid for salaries and work CDPR had done? Try to respect someone's work before reacting against the whole thing/system. Don't like it, don't play it. There is a good amount of DRM-free-offline quality games and many more will come. One F2P game changes nothing. Don't like the game, nothing for you to see, move along. Whole bunch of you started attacking on topic about OPEN beta. And now I am the one black sheep giving opinions about gwent and DRM?
I think this whole topic should be deleted.
Cheers!
BTW - GOG.com is owned by CDPR, so naturally, they are releasing their game on their home-platform. Imagine what would happened if Gwent was released on Steam/Uplay/Origin only? Would that satisfy the GOG.com DRM-free policy or would you riot even more? Rhetorical questions. No answers needed. :)
You're amalgamating multiple points of the discussion and throwing in some kind of idea that people are disrepsecting the work of these people and a few other points that have nothing to do with anything we're talking about.
Now, I'm more than willing to go through your individual points, in fact I'd be glad too, but I think that maybe there is a a fundamental difference in the way you think vs the way majority of other people think here. So I don't know if it's possible to reconcile that level of difference.
You think this topic should be deleted because you don't have an issue with any level of restriction in your games.
So I'm thinking that maybe not only do you not have an issue with it, but you actually support it. Because that is the only reason why I can think you're still here arguing against anything that makes peoples gaming experiences easier, less intrusive and overall better.
Do you? Do you actually support practices that hinder the playability and enjoyment of others in a game?
Because if you don't - then why are you trying to shut down those who don't suport it?
Edit: And for the umpteenth time about this and similar for the last 15 years - I'm happy as long as the single player portion of a game has no online requirement to play the game, no software required outside of the OS to run it, no in game transactions to get the full experience.
The issue in this particular instance - is I cannot find a place where they've said the SP will be offline. The FAQ simply states, you need to be online. Is that just for the MP Beta - or the entire experience? If it's the latter - then GOG has a problem.